Re: [PATCH] remove i386 dynamic ticks ifdefs

[Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>]

On Tue, 1 Jan 2002 21:33, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > I assume you're maintaining the dyn tick patches for i386 posted on the
> > muru website as your email is listed there. I thought you might be
> > interested in this patch for dyn-ticks which removes most of the #ifdefs
> > out of common code paths as per linux kernel style and moves more code
> > into dyn-tick.c. Most of it is straight forward code reorganisation, but
> > to keep do_timer_interrupt inlined I'd have to move it's code around
> > somewhat. That may be a better option but I've tried to fiddle with the
> > mainline code as little as possible.
> >
> > Patch applies to 2.6.12 with patch-dynamic-tick-2.6.12-rc6-050610-1
> > applied
> >
> > cc'ed lkml just for public record of the patch.
>
> Please inline patches...

Not everyone uses console email clients :| It was an inlined attachment rather 
than an ordinary attachment but clearly that doesn't suit those with console 
clients. I'm sorry.

>
> You broke indentation in one of first hunks, and you probably
> want empty functions to be static inline, so that we do not eat
> function call overhead.

Will examine. Thanks very much for your code comments!

Cheers,
Con